On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > My boss wants me to port one of my applications to Ubuntu. I > successfully ported it without too many headaches but now I need a way > to distribute it to people that may or may not already have the > dependencies my application requires. I'm a newb with Linux so I'm not > even sure what they call the distribution (rpms, deb, source code). > Debian packages (debs) are basically a zipped directory with all of the files, descriptions of where to put them, and a list of dependencies. You can find more about them here. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html > After browsing the various "installer" docs out there, it looks like > bbfreeze or PyInstaller might work, but I couldn't find any examples. > Any advice is appreciated. Thanks! When you create a debian package, you are trying to create a program for one specific distro. Deb files are installers, closer to MSI files than EXE (I assume you're coming from Windows). Using the deb files, you can install the program into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, put the program on the system path, and add it to the applications menu. You don't need to create a binary for this- you can just run the python files directly. Using debian packages, you can also add documentation and man pages. Apt will ensure that all of the dependencies are installed before your program is. Using apt, you can also uninstall the program easily. I haven't created any packages, so I don't know how hard it is to generate the package. bbfreeze and PyInstaller work differently. They create a binary executible that the user can run. Everything the user needs (Python and all your libraries) are put into a single file (or into an executable and a bunch of library files). This is easier to distribute and will work on all versions of Linux, but it won't be "installed" (to remove it, you have to manually remove all the files). If you want to use these, you should probably look at gui2exe (http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/) rather than trying to figure out the commands yourself. Andrea Gavana, the program's creator, follows the wxPython-users list if you need help with it. > > I am using Python 2.5.2 and this is a wxPython application with > SqlAlchemy and a few other external packages. > > Mike > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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